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Video: DeepFish Mobile Web Browser

Here’s a 17 minute video I shot today showing off Deepfish, a new mobile web browser from Microsoft’s “Live Labs”. The video shows how Deepfish doesn’t try to squash normal-sized web pages onto your mobile device’s screen, but instead lets you scroll and pan smoothly, and zoom in to the parts of the page you want to read.

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I also compare Deepfish to the default Pocket IE browser that comes with all Windows Mobile devices, so you can see what really makes it different.

This is a beta/tech preview of Deepfish, so there are some rough edges, but it’s a very cool technology – similar to the mobile Safari browser that Steve Jobs showed off on the iPhone.

This video was shot with my Canon XH A1 HDV camcorder at 1080i, then edited in Apple iMovie 6 HD and exported as a 320×240 Quicktime video file. It weighs in at 312 MB, and was cropped from 16:9 widescreen to standard 4:3 aspect ratio (and I chopped off the sides of some of the titles/credits in the process – oops!). Here’s a direct download link to the movie file.

Let me know what you think, or if you have any questions! I don’t have any affiliation with Microsoft, but I’ll be happy to help if I can.

So do you think this represents a significant leap forwards? You seemed to have to do an awful lot of clicking to get to anything readable there. After years of browsing the web on mobile devices, I can think of nothing more irritating. I’d much rather everything was reformatted into a single column with no horizontal scrolling for reading with a vertical scroll wheel!

Neat, but I think I like Picsel better. Picsel seems faster (you have to dig around for the Samsung Windows Mobile version that works on other Windows Mobile devices, since they don’t sell directly to consumers). Microsoft should seriously consider buying out Picsel.

Hi,
I wanted to thank you for publishing this videoclip in which you tell us a bit more about Deepfish. Now I know how to handle this little software tool, it has given me a lot of browsing pleasure so far!
This video definately has helped me!
Thank you very much and keep up the good work!